: Exercises with one hand I broke my arm a week ago and am now in a cast to my elbow. I've been working on pull-ups/pushups/crunches for over three months, but now I obviously can't anymore. What are some body-weight exercises

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I strongly suggest AGAINST working on one arm only. It will only make a bigger disproportion between your arms. One arm would get a workout and improve from its current state, while the other would get weaker because of the immobility causet by the fracture.

Take it easy, give yourself a break and dont do any training with one arm that cant be accomplished by the other. As David suggested, work on your abs, glutes, legs, back etc.

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I would advise against one arm training with upperbody, as the muscles on one side of your body might be disproportionate in strength. For instance, a one armed dumbbell press will only workout one chest muscle. As far as specific bodyweight exercises, there aren't really many without use of a machine or a cable that work both sides of the body and that spare your arm. I can think of several exercises if you don't mind the muscle asymmetries but to hit both sided---

Air squats,

Swiss ball hamstring curl,

Swiss ball jacknife

, sled pulls with a strap around your waist

, squat jumps without weight.

Regular squats might be feasible if you have use of your hand for grip but it can still apply more than the recommended use of 5 to 10 pound weight restrictions doctor's usually give you. Again this isn't a bodyweight exercise

Deadbugs

Crunches, decline crunches, Swiss ball crunches,

Crunch with rotation, or twist with a medicine ball

Several other ab exercises

Possibly pallov press?

Sprinting is also great for full leg development